The first day in the life of the European funding agency for basic research is marked by optimism, assuaged concerns.

Just 1 year after 10 new members joined, scientists are reporting signs of benefit

Commission's aim to create more synergy across Europe gets a mixed reception

Will a European Research Council do more harm than good? New lobby group thinks not

At their final meeting, EU commissioner's life science advisors warn about US dominance

Support for commercializing research and links with Korea are strengthened

Courtesy of http://www.reactome.orgReactome, a new knowledgebase of human biological processes, launched on June 2 http://www.reactome.org. An NIH-funded collaboration between Lincoln Stein's lab at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CHSL), NY, and Ewan Birney's lab at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Hinxton, UK, the Reactome supersedes an earlier project called the Genome Knowledgebase.Flexible searching tools allow users to explore biological processes and pathways in a variety of way

The EU makes long-term plans for plant biotechnology

European Commission grants first GM food approval since 1998

European Commission highlights problems delivering its strategy for life sciences and biotechnology

A conference in Slovenia assesses the state of science in the European Union

European scientists invited to sign a petition in favor of restructuring EU's research funding program